DNA methylation aging clocks: challenges and recommendations

CG Bell, R Lowe, PD Adams, AA Baccarelli, S Beck… - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Epigenetic clocks comprise a set of CpG sites whose DNA methylation levels measure
subject age. These clocks are acknowledged as a highly accurate molecular correlate of …

Targeting epigenetic modifications in cancer therapy: erasing the roadmap to cancer

HP Mohammad, O Barbash, CL Creasy - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Epigenetic dysregulation is a common feature of most cancers, often occurring directly
through alteration of epigenetic machinery. Over the last several years, a new generation of …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes

A Kundaje, W Meuleman, J Ernst, M Bilenky, A Yen… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The reference human genome sequence set the stage for studies of genetic variation and its
association with human disease, but epigenomic studies lack a similar reference. To …

Engineering triangular carbon quantum dots with unprecedented narrow bandwidth emission for multicolored LEDs

F Yuan, T Yuan, L Sui, Z Wang, Z **, Y Li, X Li… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) have emerged as promising materials for optoelectronic
applications on account of carbon's intrinsic merits of high stability, low cost, and …

Local regulation of gene expression by lncRNA promoters, transcription and splicing

JM Engreitz, JE Haines, EM Perez, G Munson, J Chen… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Mammalian genomes are pervasively transcribed, to produce thousands of long non-coding
RNAs (lncRNAs),. A few of these lncRNAs have been shown to recruit regulatory complexes …

[HTML][HTML] A compendium of chromatin contact maps reveals spatially active regions in the human genome

AD Schmitt, M Hu, I Jung, Z Xu, Y Qiu, CL Tan, Y Li… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
The three-dimensional configuration of DNA is integral to all nuclear processes in
eukaryotes, yet our knowledge of the chromosome architecture is still limited. Genome-wide …

CTCF-mediated human 3D genome architecture reveals chromatin topology for transcription

Z Tang, OJ Luo, X Li, M Zheng, JJ Zhu, P Szalaj… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Spatial genome organization and its effect on transcription remains a fundamental question.
We applied an advanced chromatin interaction analysis by paired-end tag sequencing …

The 3D Genome Browser: a web-based browser for visualizing 3D genome organization and long-range chromatin interactions

Y Wang, F Song, B Zhang, L Zhang, J Xu, D Kuang… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Here, we introduce the 3D Genome Browser, http://3dgenome. org, which allows users to
conveniently explore both their own and over 300 publicly available chromatin interaction …

A compendium of promoter-centered long-range chromatin interactions in the human genome

I Jung, A Schmitt, Y Diao, AJ Lee, T Liu, D Yang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
A large number of putative cis-regulatory sequences have been annotated in the human
genome, but the genes they control remain poorly defined. To bridge this gap, we generate …

Enhancer connectome in primary human cells identifies target genes of disease-associated DNA elements

MR Mumbach, AT Satpathy, EA Boyle, C Dai… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The challenge of linking intergenic mutations to target genes has limited molecular
understanding of human diseases. Here we show that H3K27ac HiChIP generates high …